Love Me or Leave Me

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discussed in biography

Love Me or Leave Me (1955) was a critically acclaimed biopic of singer Ruth Etting, with Doris Day in the title role and James Cagney as her gangster boyfriend (in an Oscar-nominated performance).
The Swan (1956), a pleasant romance among royalty, was Grace Kelly’s penultimate film. In 1957 Vidor made another biopic,
The Joker...

role of

Cagney

...Roberts (1955) and as silent-screen legend Lon Chaney in
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957). His most acclaimed performance of the decade was in
Love Me or Leave Me (1955) as Chicago racketeer Martin “The Gimp” Snyder, the man who obsessively controlled the career of torch singer Ruth Etting (played by Doris Day). As...

Day

Day’s first major film role was in
Romance on the High Seas (1948). From there she made a long series of musicals, including
Calamity Jane (1953),
Young at Heart (1954),
Love Me or Leave Me (1955), and
The Pajama Game (1957). Her screen persona, that of an intelligent, wholesome woman of unfailing optimism and understated strength of character, came to...